Full Coverage: Health

29.09.2006

Youth Network

With support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Population Council researchers designed an operations research project to determine the feasibility of expanding male youths’ access to reproductive health information and condom services through their peers in Bangladesh.

28.09.2006 While the fall in the total fertility rate for the five Indian
states for which NFHS-3 results have been released is to be
welcomed, one cannot draw any general conclusion until the data for the BIMARU states comes in. The data on anaemia prevalence among women and children, however, is disturbing says Ashish Bose.

27.09.2006 The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is working with the Home Ministry to repeal Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that outlaws homosexuality.

27.09.2006 As many as nine people have died due to Dengue in Delhi so far and the total number of cases reported has risen to 327.

27.09.2006 Findings of a study, conducted by Karunalaya, a voluntary organisation involved in an awareness programme along with the Chennai Corporation has revealed that about 80 per cent of families in north Chennai have, at least, one member affected by chikungunya.

27.09.2006 The United States Ambassador, David C. Mulford, and World Health Organisation (WHO) representative to India, Salim Habayeb, have signed an agreement for tuberculosis control in India.

27.09.2006 Maailman terveysjärjestö WHO on tehnyt historiallisen täyskäännöksen neljännesvuosisadan voimassa olleeseen DDT:n käyttökieltoon. Järjestön uusien suositusten mukaan kehitysyhteistyöjärjestöjen tulee ottaa DDT päätorjunta-aineeksi malarian vastaisessa kamppailussa.

27.09.2006 The International Labour Office (ILO) is to host an interagency meeting here which will provide an opportunity to examine critical occupational safety and health, employment and livelihood issues in the context of a recent UN Action Plan with regard to the potential spread of the avian flu virus.

27.09.2006 Cuba prevé dar un salto cualitativo en la salud pública hacia el 2015, que permitirá elevar la esperanza de vida de sus habitantes a 80 años de edad, según se dio a conocer en un proyecto presentado en el contexto de los debates del XIX Congreso de la Central de Trabajadores del país (CTC)

26.09.2006 Afrikassa kuolee lapsi malariaan joka 30. sekunti, muistuttaa uusi Unitaid-rahasto, joka ryhtyy toimittamaan lääkeapua köyhien maiden malaria-, tuberkuloosi- ja aids-potilaille. Hanketta rahoitetaan lahjoituksilla ja solidaarisuusveroilla, jollaista useat maat ovat jo ryhtyneet perimään lentolipuista.

25.09.2006 Reacting to the Kerala High Court's decision to set aside the ban imposed on production and sale of Coca- Cola and Pepsi in the state of Kerala, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said that it was very unfortunate. "The government has still not notified the safety norms and without these, the drinks remain as unsafe as before," said Sunita Narain, director, CSE.

21.09.2006 El Caribe no es una región homogénea en términos de la prevalencia del virus del sida: los rangos van desde 1% en Barbados, Jamaica, República Dominicana y Surinam, a más de 3% en Haití.

21.09.2006 WWF:n tänään julkistama selvitys osoittaa, että ruoka on keskeinen linkki ketjussa, joka kuljettaa kemikaalit elimistöömme. Suojautuminen kemikaalialtistumiselta elämäntapavalinnoin on mahdotonta. Siksi loppusuoralla olevan REACH-kemikaaliasetusehdotuksen on poistettava haitalliset kemikaalit käytöstä. WWF kuitenkin pelkää, että EU:n puheenjohtajamaa Suomi pitää REACH:n nopeaa hyväksyntää tärkeämpänä kuin ihmisiä suojelevan lopputuloksen aikaansaamista.

21.09.2006 Indian NGO Toxics Link has said that soft PVC toys are a threat to young children as these contain dangerous levels of lead and cadmium. The research was done on samples taken from Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai.

20.09.2006 Developing countries which invest in better education, healthcare, and job training for their record numbers of young people between the ages of 12 and 24 years of age, could produce surging economic growth and sharply reduced poverty, according to a new World Development Report 2007 launched at the Bank's Annual Meetings in Singapore.

19.09.2006 Over 7 million Afghan children aged under five will be vaccinated against the polio virus during a three-day joint campaign launched by the Afghan health ministry and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

19.09.2006 Unsafe syringe use among drug addicts in Pakistan and a lack of awareness about the risks of HIV/AIDS makes them especially vulnerable to infection.According to official figures, there are around 500,000 drug addicts in Pakistan, of whom around 60,000 inject drugs.

19.09.2006 After several cases of Chikungunia were reported from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, the disease has gripped several parts of Andaman and Nicobar Islands with South Andaman being the worst affected.

19.09.2006 Nearly 360 mobile teams have been pressed into service in Rajasthan to make door-to-door visits to check the outbreak of water-borne and other seasonal diseases following incessant rains in the state.

19.09.2006 The family planning programme should be linked closely to the HIV/AIDS programme to promote a holistic approach to save future generations from the dreaded disease, experts say.